Bug (studio album)
by Dinosaur Jr.

Album
Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 1,447th   
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 295 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (23rd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (228th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,447th)

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Bug is ranked as the best album by Dinosaur Jr..

Dinosaur Jr. album bestography « Higher ranked (304th)
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Bug Lower ranked (1,635th) »
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Bug track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Freak Scene
Average Rating: 89 (126 votes)Comments: View 3
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No Bones
Average Rating: 81 (62 votes)Comments: View 0
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They Always Come
Average Rating: 84 (65 votes)Comments: View 0
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Yeah We Know
Average Rating: 82 (59 votes)Comments: View 0
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Let It Ride
Average Rating: 81 (55 votes)Comments: View 0
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Pond Song
Average Rating: 80 (53 votes)Comments: View 0
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Budge
Average Rating: 82 (57 votes)Comments: View 0
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Post
Average Rating: 79 (52 votes)Comments: View 0
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Don't
Average Rating: 70 (54 votes)Comments: View 1
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Bug rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,447th | 1980s rank: 228th | 1988 rank: 23rd

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Bug ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 295 votes)
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70/100
 !		47 hours ago Exist-en-ciel   2,66770/100
 
80/100
 !		5 days ago Leschoses   2076/100
 
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 !		10/05/2025 08:19 Olli   6,15568/100
 
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 !		09/16/2025 01:30 imacgill   2,53779/100
 
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 !		08/07/2025 01:59 edguyerrison   13574/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.

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75/100
From 02/21/2022 06:39 | #281652
IF you like distortion and guitars this is your album.
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80/100
From 08/09/2020 03:57 | #256840
This is definitely not as good as You're Living All Over Me, but I would still consider it a great album. A must listen.
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From 07/22/2019 15:04 | #240160
Favorite Tracks:No Bones, Budge
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90/100
From 06/16/2019 03:36 | #237583
Freak Scene is great. Let It Ride is really good, and a couple other songs are good (They Always Come, Budge). But the rest of the album is too filler to make me highly recommend this album as a whole.
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70/100
From 01/21/2018 21:45 | #206242
Really good at times, but like so many things, I didn't like all of it.
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100/100
From 03/24/2016 17:53 | #162425
The perfect blend of alt. rock/noise rock
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90/100
From 07/10/2015 16:08 | #145476
Underrated and overshadowed by You're Living All Over Me, but in reality it's just as good as it.
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75/100
From 01/31/2015 22:16 | #133463
They were so prolific at this point. Pure quality throughout.
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From 02/21/2013 17:52 | #65743
Violent guitars which cut hedges. Songs structures which are nice and easy. Flows together well and I wish this could sit with other albums I had. Can't remember anythng from the lyrics at all though. Could recite every word from the Japandroids albums afer a few listens. Need more loud guitars in the world. A mole from the hole in the garden beside a black cloud on the lawn with a happy face, this album shines out greatness!
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Rating:  
95/100
From 04/23/2010 17:48 | #10914
Stunning album that starts off like dynamite. Dinosaur are geniuses. No wonder so many artists stole pieces of their sound.
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